EY DND 2010

e theme this year is.....

rock & roll...

the colonial period...

retro fever...

&

ehhhh.....

forgot what the other theme was...

Mariliyn Monroe era!

serena and i

buddy, mich & i

the junior batch performing to hairspray songs.

brings back nostalgic memories of when we were A1s too :)

our tax team's dance performance ended with a bang...of confetti!

and we got number 1!!

congrats to the junior batch!! we've finally gotten back our rightful medal from audit :)

rocker wei lin & "failed rocker" me, lol.

wanted to dress up and add more blings to the Zs.

but considering i only left the office at 7+pm ( and might i add, in a panic at all the work that was piling up at my desk)....i didn't put much effort into dressing up.

in fact, most of the tax dept peeps didn't bother dressing up.

"Office 2010" might as well be the theme for DND this year.

lol.

retro fever...my junior in red sewed that dress all by herself! so talented!

love Fion's colonial pearl-white gown!

bee and i! love her red specs :)

the auditors! haha, at least 3/4 used to be. trianna still looks pretty in a samsui costume la, wah, jealous. haha.

with the group a peeps!!

my fave audit senior! Xiangyuan!! she's left EY already, sobs...it's sad seeing people come and go ever so often in the company.

fave audit mgr! lol, actually, not that i know any other audit managers personally so there's not many else to compare to.

love Marilyn's dress with it's tutu like skirt! so pretty :)

this year's dnd seemed really short and fleeting. guess it's cause it was on a wednesday and whaddyaknow, right smack in the middle of our peak of peak period. didn't enjoy it very much and it may as well have been a normal everyday dinner (of course, if you consider 8 meal courses as everyday meal).

i gotta give credits to the mc that night though, really professional & tickled our funny bones with his silly hokkien, indian, malay, chinese slangs.

and to sidetrak a bit....

look what i got from my dearest colleagues for my birthday!

super nice can!!

but very very AA.

this flower are really the most lasting flowers i've ever seen, one week since my birthday and it has barely withered! and i have never watered it once.

i would almost believe they were made from tissue if not for the flowery scent .

and guess what???!!!!

PEAK IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END!!!!

TIME TO REALLY CELEBRATE!!!

FML....$@R&^%&^%#&^%


i haven't slept a wink in the last 24 hours and now i gotta go back to work again.

birthday :D

this blog will (for once) be pictureless...

because i have not had the time to upload pictures nor take pictures for that matter...

but i just feel too grateful today that i had the urge to blog at...yes, 3.30am in the morning...

just wanna take this time to say that i'm feeling really blessed to have so many (in my opinion) people sending me birthday wishes this birthday.

 not all of them are close friends, some could be acquiantances, but it's still nice to know that you're remembered and appreciated.

and more importantly, the purpose of this post is to thank all my colleagues/buddies/friends at work and my dearest mentor.

i truly felt really appreciated and blessed by them today.

i always felt kinda like the odd one out in my tiny little cubicle.

i'm not exactly the witty kind of person who immediately warms up to people.

i've always just led a life doing whatever i think is right, i am no good at bootlicking, nor do i know what i should say/not say (i just say what goes on in my head). in a way, it may not be the wisest approach specially in the workplace where a person's gullibility and innocence may be taken advantage of. but i try my best to live up to my principles of being sincere in my relationship with people and i believe that i have stayed through to that all the way.

and i believe that God has blessed that choice of mine.

today, i rec'd really BIG gift from my colleagues, they really must have contributed a lot :S

of course, it would be foolish to measure people's appreciation by the amount they contribute to your birthday gift. but i am still deeply grateful and thankful.


for an idea of what they did for me for my birthday...

1) serena helped to pick out a big bouquet of pretty, pastel-coloured flowers and a balloon for me.


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the receptionist called and told me to collect flowers from the 18th flr...

when i got there, i was utterly shocked to see a balloon attached to the flowers...

the first thought that came to my mind...

"OMG. how am i going to bring this back to office w/o being seen!!! SO AA!!"

and when i read the card, it did not state the name of the giver...

it merely said...

"Guess who?" 

-_-""

i spent the whole afternoon trying to figure out.

lolx.

2) my cubicle buddy got me a ice lime tea too, haha. 


i count this as a birthday surprise too cause his favourite hobby is probably to suan me, such acts of kindness is rare, lol.


(haha, actually he's not that bad. i'm just exaggerating)

somehow, everyone was being really nice to me today,haha. i could get used to this.

3) in the evening, wlin asked me to join her at the pantry to get some biscuits, by then, i already knew what was going on, it was reallly obvious (wlin would never ask me to follow her to the pantry to get biscuits! lol, she would just tell me to go get them myself, or she'll get them for me, place them at her desk and then ask me to get them from her table at the other side of the office, hahahha, but notwithstanding that, she's reallly very sweet cause she'll always inform me when there's new biscuits cause she knows what a terrible snacker i am) but i just followed along.


at the pantry, i found....

awfully chocolate cake! 


i usually don't like chocolate cakes but awfully chocolate cake is the one brand of chocolate cake i can't resist! haha, expensive taste.

and to top that off, i got bobby brown eyeliner and brush, 150 bucks worth of Capitaland vouchers and 50 bucks worth of PAZZION vouchers.

it didn't really hit me how much money must have went into the gifts until i actually tried to recall all the gifts i've r'cd.

k, i think i need to go sleep now.

will continue on when i find the time...

but before i go, just wana say that i am very grateful to my buddy who organised everything (must have taken a lot of effort!), to Serena who helped pick out the flowers, to Vicki for the shoe vouchers, to the rest of my colleagues for the monetary contribution and card and also to my mentor who has been so supportive of me and guided me throughout my 1+ yrs in the company. sometimes i feel ashamed cause i am such a klutz and sometimes bug her a tad too many times because i don't understand so many things. I really believe that it is God's grace that i am blessed with one of the nicest managers in the office as my mentor!

THANK YOU!

FAREWELL ALEX. CYA IN JAN.

alex and jialok - karaoke kings...lol, exams on mondays but always time for karaoke sessions.

soooo sunday we went for cheap karaoke session at the some cc in bedok.

lydia and i cam-whoring :)

jialok, lydia & i.

gab taking a nap....or actually...i think he was memorising his medical notes :S

haha.

guess that's what it takes to be a doctor huh.

there's never a place in time that you can't whip out your medical notes to study, even if there's like 100db sound blasting in your ears.

calvin all tucked in his own little corner.

still memorising...tehehe...never fails to amuse us with his antics.

pretty myrna and i! so long since i've taken a one to one photo with her! used to always love playing "Shi Lian Pai" (chinese for 10 face shots) with her!

Lilian is glowing in this shot! haha, must give this photo to *winkwink* :)

Vien's Birthday Celebration

where did we go??

The Ship Restaurant @ Shaw Tower

ever been there before?

this used to be my family's frequent dining spots

they serve up fabulous oyster monays (oyster baked with cheese and spinach)

mussels

oyster monay

chicken something something.... i can never get food names.

you know...

restaurant menus should just make it easy for customers...

categorise their dishes in the type of meat/vege...

example...

for chicken dishes...

chicken 1, chicken 2, chicken 3.

there, simple and easy for customers to order.

this way, customers won't go away feeling embarrassed cause they can't pronounce the (sometimes) ridiculously chim names of food, which chefs come up with just to sound ridiculously atas.

the ship steak was pretty cool. the waitress would do a all "whoo haa" stunt by pouring alcohol onto the steak and flame it up. quite a sight. but the disappointing part....the steak was a tad tooo alcoholish.

my aglio olio. it was....so-so.

after dinner, the swiss gals proceeded to Cedele after much failed attempts to convince Jie Shan to watch PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES. lol. i would have objected vehemently as well. Gore is perfectly fine, but no horror shows featuring spirits/ghouls or the likes(especially movies featuring asian ghosts, not very appealing sight to see a ghosts that looks like oneself) i don't think i can face the world if i ended up peeing in my pants through the movie.

as the night crept on, we ended up talking abt morbid stories....

the most shocking of which i heard that night....

apparantly a friend of a friend of vivien met a guy while overseas....

the thing is, they started hanging out a lot...

one night after drinks, they were both pretty high and the guy offered his place for the night but thank goodness the girl turned him down...

shortly after, she developed a sore on her mouth and she went to seek a doctor....

the doctor asked her...

"Where have you been lately? What have you been in contact with?"

she was confused.

The doctor proceeded....

"You've developed a infection that can only be found on corpse"...

eeeekkkkssss.

turns out the guy she's been hanging out so often with murdered a few girls in his apartment and kept their corpse in his house. That explains the infection.

for all you girls out there, thankfully he was caught.

NEVER GO TO A STRANGER'S APARTMENT.

strawberry crepes *licks lips*

pretty peeps



karaoke session at home with my beloved cell group

it's been a while since i had this much fun

it was a much needed break from work and the chaos i call life these days (imagine working on weekends and midnights on weekdays!! if you even call that life! this explains why this blog isn't updated :S but i shan't complain, as the taxi driver the other day told me: "Life is what you make out of it, how you perceive it" and you know what....for 3/4 of the year, i'm pretty much free, now's the peak period so i'll just hafta persevere!)

---> on hind sight, kinda weird getting a philosophical revelation from a cab driver, haha.

cute germaine (very unique and cute voice....think guo mei mei!) & bubbly lilian

playing my fave card game ever...

MONOPOLY DEAL...

lol.

i'm such a loser, i know.

big lydia, jin & alex (fantastic singer) 

myrna, ZJ, calvin & david.

calvin is the dramatic karaoke singer.

lol.

you should see him sing.

david, our multi-talented guitarist, composer, singer, artist, etc etc etc.

ger showing off her clear, cutesy vocals :)

Sarprinos! we had 4 pizzas and 3 other small bites...we are BIG EATERS i realised. lol. guess my cell group is filled with growing children ;)

me, lilian & jin

gab, david, me & dan

GROUP SHOTS!! WE HAD LOTS OF FUN THAT DAY!

it was a really heartwarming :)

pssst....check out our very own "ADAM LEVINE". he couldn't reach some of the high notes on this song but nevertheless, i still think he's voice is da-bomb.

pardon the lousy video quality though.

guess what i found....

our halloween outfits...lol.